Laura Shamp

Laura M. Shamp is a founding partner of Shamp Silk. She played collegiate basketball in the Final Four before graduating with honors from Harvard Law School in 1988. After law school, she served as a federal law clerk for United States District Court Judge Robert H. Hall. Over more than two decades of litigation, she has obtained multi million dollar verdicts in difficult jurisdictions, including an eleven million dollar jury verdict against Philip Morris USA.

She is consistently recognized as one of Georgia's Super Lawyers. Her reported appellate cases have helped shape Georgia law on medical malpractice and the use of expert witness testimony, including Hankla v. Postell (Georgia Supreme Court, 2013), EHCA Cartersville v. Turner (Georgia Supreme Court, 2006), Lee v. Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (Georgia Court of Appeals, 2009), and Houston v. Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (Georgia Court of Appeals, 2009). She chairs the Georgia Trial Lawyers Amicus Committee, which submits friend of the court briefs to the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals on issues affecting the civil justice system. In 2004 she returned to Harvard to study patient safety and medical errors under Don Berwick and Lucian Leape, and in 2005 she earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Before founding Shamp Silk, she ran a successful solo practice for more than fifteen years. Prior to that she practiced for four years at Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles and Devine, and she began her career as a general civil litigator at Sutherland Asbill and Brennan. She is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, as well as all other trial and appellate courts in the State of Georgia.